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BEEHIVE AND CHAMBER TOMBS
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he goes on to say: " But the Greeks are great hands at
admiring things abroad in preference to those at home:
thus eminent writers have seen fit to describe minutely the
Pyramids of Egypt while they have not a word to say of
Fig. 47. "Treasury of Minyas" at Orchomenos
the Treasury of Minyas and the Walls at Tiryns, though
these are not a whit less wonderful" (ix. 36). And re-
turning to the subject further on (c. 38) he characterizes
the structure as " a wonder second to none in Greece or
in the world at large," and adds a tolerable description —
so far as it goes — of the tholos as we know it.
This description shows that in Pausanias' time the
Treasury was intact and open; and when Dr. Schliemann
127
he goes on to say: " But the Greeks are great hands at
admiring things abroad in preference to those at home:
thus eminent writers have seen fit to describe minutely the
Pyramids of Egypt while they have not a word to say of
Fig. 47. "Treasury of Minyas" at Orchomenos
the Treasury of Minyas and the Walls at Tiryns, though
these are not a whit less wonderful" (ix. 36). And re-
turning to the subject further on (c. 38) he characterizes
the structure as " a wonder second to none in Greece or
in the world at large," and adds a tolerable description —
so far as it goes — of the tholos as we know it.
This description shows that in Pausanias' time the
Treasury was intact and open; and when Dr. Schliemann